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StellaLily, a Mobile Art Business based in Ravenswood

How's Business? is the product of our listening tour with small businesses throughout the City of Chicago. Through interviews with company founders, How's Business? documents what's going well – and what could be going better – for small businesses in Chicago. From licensing to maintaining work/life balance, we get candid with entrepreneurs and capture what it's really like to do business in The Windy City.